Torrent Tracker Demonoid Shut Down by CRIA

[zekrahminator]

There seems to be a worldwide crackdown on piracy, as of late. Demonoid was once shut down by the Canadian Recording Industry Association, and then came back on the promise that Canadians could not access Demonoid. Unfortunately for anyone hoping for a fast and easy way to download that latest Linux distribution, the CRIA had a nasty surprise for the administrators of Demonoid. You can see the nasty surprise on the front page of the website (http://www.demonoid.com/). The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.

This method of site shutdown, called "upstream takedown", was done in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (http://www.dailytech.com/Manipulating+Bloggers+Trademark+Dilution+Libel+and +the+DMCA/article9515.htm)

Source: DailyTech (http://www.dailytech.com/Demonoidcom+Shut+Down+by+CRIA/article9612.htm)

[PVTCaboose1337]

So sad for all the pirates.

[Makaveli]

Talk about dirty Tactics.

[panchoman]

Talk about dirty Tactics.

ditto...

[cdawall]

hey lets shut down myspace since you can DL music off it for free :shadedshu CRIA can burn

[laszlo]

also today hungarian police seized 80 servers of torrent sites, but a few still working...:laugh:

[Scrizz]

I wonder who's next?

[hat]

I would LOVE if someone whould shut down myspace...
@ Scrizz: I wonder who's left? :F

[intel igent]

So sad for all the pirates.

HEY!

im a pirate.

[OnBoard]

Why is it that big companies can blackmail all they want, but if we do it it's against the law?

This sounds as stupid as someone speeding in school zone -> lets go to the source and shut down the neighborhood gas station, so no-one can't speed anymore at that site. Was it that gas stations fault that someone whom they provided speed used it illegally?

Parents have to take their kids to school with hydrogen busses and gas station owners kids have to starve as some stupid CRIA members blackmailed them :(

[FreedomEclipse]

this is a very sad day amongst pirates....

Demonoid was huge but I think they knew what was coming as when ever I tried to sign up to an account to get to their torrents it wouldnt let me claiming they had already reached their Max level of uses & you couldnt join unless you had a special Invitation/serial key from them....

Rust in peace Demonoid

[b1lk1]

All I will say is that you guys spouting off that the pirates cannot be stopped are really gonna be eating your words in the next few years to come. Your idiotic logic that software/music/movies/whatever is costing too much and you deserve it for free is gonna finally be squashed. Please, noone needs to respond to me with a personal attack since I am not attacking anyone personally. But I do firmly agree with the fact that pirating is what makes things cost more and I have no sympathy for these sham sites getting closed. The sooner they all get closed down the sooner our prices will drop.

[Firedomain]

all i can say is

You cant stop piracy, dont bother trying.
Once the internet was created it all blew up (piracy... the good kind of blew up! )
& thats a large thing keeping the net going at the rate it is.
Give up, we will all find bigger & better ways 2 stay under the radar!:roll:

so :toast: to all the pirates keeping the system running.

another revelation is coming & we'll just keep making them better.:respect:

EDIT: (b1lk1 this isn't a comeback 2 ur last post. i didn't see it when i wrote this & i pretty much agree with the prices thing!!!)
(p.s. im not exactly sober!)

[bim27142]

i loved demonoid...

[Firedomain]

this may be of some relevance... not very detailed though...:( http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/ippd-dppi.nsf/en/h_ip01456e.html

[rhythmeister]

This sucks, I used to get episodes of TV progs that I had missed due to other commitments. I guess the bastards'll come after ME now cos I didn't programme a video recorder to record these videos but used the internet and Torrent software!Oh, and piracy will act to keep software/ audio/ video prices down as far as I'm concerned; if Joe/ Joanne Public can get it free then making it more attractive by NOT ripping them off horrendously acts to encourage sales-just look at sales of the most recent Radiohead album (In rainbows). They did very well from the album with some people only paying a pittance but they cut out the middleman, in this case record companies, so they kept their earnings :D

Respect to the unauthorised lenders/ friends I've not met in person as of yet!

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

I would LOVE if someone whould shut down myspace...
What's so bad about it? If you dont like it, then dont use it. Plain and simple. Just because you dont like something doesnt mean others feel the same. So saying you wish someone would shut down myspace is a selfish act.

[LonGun]

hopefully the sites that aren't down by the law yet will study and learn some lessons, not to let an open spot where could be shutting them down like the others.

[XooM]

and thepiratebay keeps going strong.

[Firedomain]

thats coz thepiratebay has whats know as "swedish heritage".... lucky bastards...
ah well thank god for the net interlacing all of us!!!! id die without it!!!

(on that note.. how funny would it b if everyone switched off there comps at the same time.... as far as im concerned... there would b a lot of ppls house equipment & power plants blowing up!!!! & the temporary death of RAM viruses.)

[Widjaja]

Pirating has been out since my older brother own an Amiga 500.
From what I remember games were just as expensive then as they are now.
It's not going to stop.

[keakar]

All I will say is that you guys spouting off that the pirates cannot be stopped are really gonna be eating your words in the next few years to come. Your idiotic logic that software/music/movies/whatever is costing too much and you deserve it for free is gonna finally be squashed. Please, noone needs to respond to me with a personal attack since I am not attacking anyone personally. But I do firmly agree with the fact that pirating is what makes things cost more and I have no sympathy for these sham sites getting closed. The sooner they all get closed down the sooner our prices will drop.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

you really are deluded if you think this will ever have the effect of lowering prices.

they cant RAISE prices as long as piracy is there because honest people will only pay so much before they turn to "alternate" means of getting media. eliminate piracy and overnight you can double the price or more on media.

if you never had one pirated copy made the prices would be way way higher than you pay now. if you could flip a switch and as of this second nothing could be pirated any more, the companies would be fighting over each other to see who could be the fastest to raise prices the most.

as long as pirates are there they keep the media companies prices lower because if you can get a pirate copy they have no choice but to supply us with a reasonably priced legal copy or you wont buy it.

[cdawall]

now that actually makes sense keaker

[Ketxxx]

There will always be some decent pirate sites, such as thepiratebay. Their servers are in Sweden, where no copywrite laws exist. Also, little known fact, in cyprus its perfectly legal to buy and sell copied software.. hmm... I wonder where the next wave of pirate sites will be based ;)

[cdawall]

lol off to cyprus

[IcrushitI]

Come on guys lets get with it, they have to shut down P2P, because if you have kept up with the latest news, the movie industry, as an example are selling top grade movies to the Chinese for $2.90 a dvd,to keep them from pirating (the average chinese makes about $80 a month, and so are roughly most of the Asians, I'm talking about Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand) the last thing they want is for us to get pissed off and download the movies from asia and keep charging us $20 to $25 or more here. That is what the shutting down P2P is all about. Theirs more but thats enough for now.

[Ketxxx]

Cyprus is a wonderful place :D ahh I recall the memories well, hot topless women, nice weather, great beach's, food freshly made, great beer. I love Cyprus.

[cdawall]

heavan on earth?

[hat]

Where is this Cyprus? I DEMANDZ TO KNO!

[Ketxxx]

Google it :p

[V lyx]

All I will say is that you guys spouting off that the pirates cannot be stopped are really gonna be eating your words in the next few years to come. Your idiotic logic that software/music/movies/whatever is costing too much and you deserve it for free is gonna finally be squashed. Please, noone needs to respond to me with a personal attack since I am not attacking anyone personally. But I do firmly agree with the fact that pirating is what makes things cost more and I have no sympathy for these sham sites getting closed. The sooner they all get closed down the sooner our prices will drop.


You're probably right, but you're also missing a point. How can the movie industry claim that internet piracy is making them loose money if most of the people never intended to pay to see the movie or use a software/game? Basically how do you know you lost money because of a Ipirate? Can they really claim that a person downloading it for free would have paid to see it?

[Wile E]

All I will say is that you guys spouting off that the pirates cannot be stopped are really gonna be eating your words in the next few years to come. Your idiotic logic that software/music/movies/whatever is costing too much and you deserve it for free is gonna finally be squashed. Please, noone needs to respond to me with a personal attack since I am not attacking anyone personally. But I do firmly agree with the fact that pirating is what makes things cost more and I have no sympathy for these sham sites getting closed. The sooner they all get closed down the sooner our prices will drop.I'm not gonna personally attack you, and I don't think piracy is right, but if you think stopping it will lower prices, you have fooled yourself. They'll just find a different excuse to keep prices high.

[Scrizz]

I'm not gonna personally attack you, and I don't think piracy is right, but if you think stopping it will lower prices, you have fooled yourself. They'll just find a different excuse to keep prices high.

Aint that the truth :cool:

[Firedomain]

just like m.......y friends......:ohwell: they would never spend there money on games & crap & as soon as they found out bout p2p networks they started 2 download games & shit.. officially making the game designer lose NO MONEY!

[LonGun]

just like m.......y friends......:ohwell: they would never spend there money on games & crap & as soon as they found out bout p2p networks they started 2 download games & shit.. officially making the game designer lose NO MONEY!

one of the reasons your friends are still losing is that they won't be able to play muti-players games; unless they don't give a shiet about it then I have nothing to say. :rolleyes:

[Woah Mama!]

Governments are pirates too, lets go shut those asshats down. Oil companies are pirates, lets shut those down also, as with retail chains, and every other company or type of organisation that doesn't personally make what they sell to you.

[Firedomain]

one of the reasons your friends are still losing is that they won't be able to play muti-players games; unless they don't give a shiet about it then I have nothing to say. :rolleyes:

yer, i know. some games are online playable without authentic keys & others have patches to allow online play... & then u have the "smart" idea of accounts that you can only create with a genuine copy & then play via a login style system.
than again with ppl getting smart & making proper keygens (not "fake" ones that just have a list of keys & display one at random) the companies are finding it harder 2 stop ppl coz they may infact have a genuine copy... or may be using a key of a copy that hasn't been sold yet.
i know there ain't many "proper" keygens about.... but they seem 2 b getting there... especially when vista was released! what an unexpected boom in the keygen market...NOT

[WarEagleAU]

I had just joined demonoid not to long ago. Kind of sad really, I had an awesome ratio there and even created a torrent upload for them. Hopefully, they can bounce back with servers placed somewhere else. Or they could turn a pc into their own server and go from there...sad day.

the piratebay, while a decent site, also sucks in that alot of torrents are fakes or viruses and there isnt any real way to fix them.

[IcrushitI]

I had just joined demonoid not to long ago. Kind of sad really, I had an awesome ratio there and even created a torrent upload for them. Hopefully, they can bounce back with servers placed somewhere else. Or they could turn a pc into their own server and go from there...sad day.

the piratebay, while a decent site, also sucks in that alot of torrents are fakes or viruses and there isnt any real way to fix them.

Makes me wonder if your not one of these guys who get paid to come on to sites and Troll for the industry with negative remarks:). I have no problem picking out the good files from the bad. My antivius program does a wonderful job of letting me know. I've found bad progs in a lot of torrent sites, and guess what alot of them are put their by the industry, do some home work and I'm sure you will find some programs that have not been tampered with and for the guys who work hard to give me a chance to Try before I Buy makeing it all happen a big THANK YOU.

[freaksavior]

i personally don't care if they got shut down. there's only 1000+ sites for that stuff and most people know what was dl from there site.....p0rn0!

demonoid was slow downloads so good riddens

[pbmaster]

Demonoid worked very well for me. Fast downloads and good search results. I'm gonna be sad if it doesn't come back!

[belpois]

Man try the others for downloads
like ... oops I can't link to warez.

there are many more to choose from come on cheer up my friends :cool: :toast:

[LonGun]

Man try the others for downloads
like ...

there are many more to choose from come on cheer up my friends :cool: :toast:

The site doesn't even exist or takes centuries to open.

[LonGun]

yer, i know. some games are online playable without authentic keys & others have patches to allow online play... & then u have the "smart" idea of accounts that you can only create with a genuine copy & then play via a login style system.
than again with ppl getting smart & making proper keygens (not "fake" ones that just have a list of keys & display one at random) the companies are finding it harder 2 stop ppl coz they may infact have a genuine copy... or may be using a key of a copy that hasn't been sold yet.
i know there ain't many "proper" keygens about.... but they seem 2 b getting there... especially when vista was released! what an unexpected boom in the keygen market...NOT

Using a keygen to crack a game most likely will not get you to the Online play. From my point of view, I wouldn't spend the time to look hard in finding a keygen/crack that really works my way to Online mode. I also would definately not risk my life by passing those in-store-cameras to steal a legit-game-key by openning the game box in the store, and most likely will get caught and lose my whole face for a stupid game.
All in all, Single-Player will worth the crack. But for Muti-Player, I'd pass.

[Wile E]

Makes me wonder if your not one of these guys who get paid to come on to sites and Troll for the industry with negative remarks:). I have no problem picking out the good files from the bad. My antivius program does a wonderful job of letting me know. I've found bad progs in a lot of torrent sites, and guess what alot of them are put their by the industry, do some home work and I'm sure you will find some programs that have not been tampered with and for the guys who work hard to give me a chance to Try before I Buy makeing it all happen a big THANK YOU. TPB is OK, but Demonoid had a lot less spam and garbage on it, and no porn clogging the tracker. Private trackers are usually moderated better. Not to mention, the search filter was far superior to TPB. Still like TPB tho, Demonoid was just better.

[Firedomain]

just for the record most torrents are only around 15KB - 200KB (most*) the files themselves arnt from the site. so the download speeds wouldn't have anything 2 do with which site u visit 2 get them but whether there good or bad torrents.

& as for the viruses & shit most of the time if its a good torrent (lots of seeds) then it *usually* isn't a virus. (except for when the corps have a lot of peers hosting there fake files).
coz most ppl will delete a torrent once they detect a virus (which like IcrushitI, my virus scanner also allways tells me)

as long as u have 1\2 a brain torrents are great. (not saying anyone here had 1\2 a brain.... except me from how often ive been drunk lately!)

oh, & isohunt ROCKS... is easy 2 find torrents & they dont fill the page with CRAP (expecially when im using firefox with adblock & flashblock stuff!!!

[Wile E]

just for the record most torrents are only around 15KB - 200KB (most*) the files themselves arnt from the site. so the download speeds wouldn't have anything 2 do with which site u visit 2 get them but whether there good or bad torrents.Moderated trackers have less garbage on them, thus higher speeds as there's less people devoting bandwidth to bad torrents, leaving more bandwidth to the good torrents.

[Firedomain]

Moderated trackers have less garbage on them, thus higher speeds as there's less people devoting bandwidth to bad torrents, leaving more bandwidth to the good torrents.

i totally agree with u there. but i was refering 2 something on the other page... didnt realise this thread had spread 2 2 pages when i wrote the last post!